Calling Bullshit 9.2: Fake News Definitions and Examples

Examples and definitions of fake news and how this white noise is being shared millions of times from both sides of the political aisle, making people lots of money, and fooling our search engines, which can make it difficult for democracy to run effectively.
May 24, 2017
Course: INFO 198 / BIOL 106B. University of Washington
Instructors: Carl T. Bergstrom and Jevin West
Synopsis: Our world is saturated with bullshit. Learn to detect and defuse it.
The course will be offered as a 1-credit seminar this spring through the Information School at the University of Washington. We aim to expand it to a 3 or 4 credit course for 2017-2018. For those who cannot attend in person, we aim to videotape the lectures this spring and make video clips freely available on the web.
callingbullshit.org
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Information School ischool.uw.edu/
Department of Biology www.biology.washington.edu/
Video edited by Bum Mook Oh
Music by Chris Zabriskie: Prelude No.7

[@bendoucette8761]

"A lie can get half-way around the world before the truth can get its pants on." Mark Twain

[@syk0saje]

i like how they introduced to me the concept of "tribal epistemology". great lecture series!

[@JurijFedorov]

Damn shame to see them talk about how great Snopes was just 3 years ago. Now it's a shell of its former glory and all their political stuff are opinion pieces.

[@CraigGood]

Re: satires -- Poe's Law rules the universe.

[@deeaplw]

Once you endorsed SNOPES I saw your guise. No thanks.

[@plursocks]

Little did they know six years later, we will have entered a world that is so wild the actual real is almost indistinguishable from the onion and Donald Trump has been arrested for attempting a coup

[@yesmsg429]

Frederick Douglass anyone

[@TheConservativesrock]

U.S. was supposed to be Constitutional Republic